The biofuel industry in the US has experienced rapid growth in recent years, in part fueled by government incentives, which has led several academics to conduct cost-benefit analyses on biofuels. In this paper, I focus in on the issue of changes in land and fertilizer use as a cost of increasing...

The main focus of this paper is to analyze whether a country-specific commodity price index and a food production index have strong explanatory power on determining the volume of United States foreign food aid flows to low-income countries. The study uses panel data for seventy-six countries...

This study will investigate several variables that affect the hotel industry cycle across the time line. These benchmarks include average daily rates (ADR), revenue per available room (REVPAR), occupancy rates (percentages), supply of rooms, and economic indicators. Since New Orleans' industry...

The economic repercussions of September 11th are unique in that never before have economists needed to forecast and examine the impact of an event of such magnitude. This paper explains many of the economic effects of September l Ith, from the initial aftermath to recent developments. These...

This study investigates the use of discretion by oil and gas companies in reporting financial performance and oil and gas reserve estimates during times of high political scrutiny resulting from increases in energy prices. Hypotheses tested in prior literature state that companies facing the...

This paper develops a new technique for measuring the effect of computer usage on U.S. productivity growth. Standard National Income and Product Accounts (NIPA) measures of the computer capital stock, which are constructed by weighting past investments according to a schedule for economic...

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On October 14, 2004, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer shook the entire insurance industry by filing a civil lawsuit against a group of insurance companies regarding their alleged price-fixing and bid-rigging. By using event study methodology, this study determines quantitatively the...